Google’s keyboard for iPhone just got a fantastic new feature

And thanks to the latest Gboard update, you can now use the space bar to move the cursor along your text in a similar way that Apple's 3D Touch works — but with Gboard, you don't need an iPhone with 3D Touch for this feature to work.

All you have to do is swipe left or right on the space bar in Gboard to move the cursor along your text, like this:

Here's what that feature looks like with Apple's 3D Touch feature, which is only available on the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. You can move the cursor around your text when you hard-press into Apple's keyboard, like this:

Essentially, it lets you go back to text you've written in the text box in any app to fix mistakes much more easily than using your thumb to place the cursor where you want it.

Google's version of this feature on Gboard is not quite as good as Apple's 3D Touch cursor, which also lets you move up and down several lines of text with ease as if you were using the arrow keys on your computer keyboard. Gboard's update only lets you move along a single line of text at a time, as if you only had access to the left and right arrow keys.

However, I did find that the Gboard update is more reliable and consistent than Apple's 3D Touch cursor, as my iPhone 6s Plus won't always register that I'm trying to use 3D Touch on the iOS keyboard.

Gboard also lets you swipe through letters to write words, which, in my opinion, is faster than tapping each letter. It also lets you add GIFs, which Apple's built-in iOS keyboard can't.